We were trolling, but both are effective this time of year. A great place for reports and advice is on Pugstone's web site. www.fishingbearlake.com Darin usually has a recent report and techniques. Troll with Flat fish or rapalas. Move depths until you find the fish. Jig with tubes and the same. Move until you find them.

Good morning - you mentioned east side - never fished there but was looking at the southeast side. Any suggestion on best place to launch on the east side that is available now - or do you just launch at the state marina and head across. Appreciate your input.

We launched at Rainbow Cove. There is also First Point. Both are really good launches if there is not ice there. That you would have to check from day to day as the ice blows around. Launching from the state marina works also. I have done this before and run across.

Landed 3 cuts, all natives. Gorgeous day! All three near rock pile on flatfish ( silver/green ). Saw a couple in a small boat during extremely well jigging. Just amazing beauty out there, love the water color! 16-17" fish.

I was with Jazz today & we fished the West side. Talked to BearLakeFishGuy, who ventured over to the East side & he said there was ice over there also. You could get around, but it made it a pain in the butt to fish.

We only caught two yesterday, mainly because the ice blocked the area we wanted to fish or maybe it was the moon. There were five boats around us trolling in a circle because it was the only open spot in the ice after getting out of the marina. Saw a couple different BFT members up there but didn't get their user names. It was a nice day at the big blue, it's too bad the catching wasn't better.

glad you guys caught some i was out there also we were in the green boat that was trolling back and forth we got 2 hits and had one on for about 30 seconds maybe some other time we now just need some wind to break up the ice

It was right after you guy started trolling south we started getting some bites but by then we were jigging because the trolling motor wouldn't stay running. We were in that white Lowe with the red strips.The other fish was a smaller cutt. It won't take much wind to blow that ice off especially if it stays warm for a few more days but they are saying snow by this weekend. The fish were caught between 12-1pm but we did not mark many except by the edge of the ice were we ended up jigging.

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